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The Wallace case is like waiting for a bus: three books come along in one year! My new book is the second edition of Move To Murder and a thoroughly expanded tome (an additional 20K words) - available as e-book this year and paperback early in 2022.
What's new?
I have referenced Russell (indeed there is a brief overview of his book in Part Three - Other Verdicts). While the connoisseur of the case will savour the rich detail (I particularly liked the police court and the appeal court narrative), I was not that impressed with his analysis and arguments. IMO, it was largely a re-hash of Murphy and it inherits many of the same mistakes, the biggest being the assumption that the caller must also be the killer. This might have been “generally accepted” during the last century but the result is that modern theories are glossed over or ignored. Also, other theories/ideas when they are briefly mentioned, are dismissed as “half-baked”, “idiotic”, “nonsensical” and “insane”, to provide a small sample.
So there we go. The other titles in the Cold Case Jury are being re-released in the following weeks, too.
What's new?
- An additional theory (six in total: 3 for innocence, and 3 for guilt. It's balanced)
- Analysis by modern forensic scientists
- A fully expanded evidence file (including an analysis of Wallace's accounts and an updated exhibit on Lily Hall - plus much more)
- Amended reconstruction and scenarios (to fit with new forensic views)
- New analyses, some responding to points made in Mark Russell's Checkmate (2021)
- A new cover (OK, a trivial point, but it is good IMO).
I have referenced Russell (indeed there is a brief overview of his book in Part Three - Other Verdicts). While the connoisseur of the case will savour the rich detail (I particularly liked the police court and the appeal court narrative), I was not that impressed with his analysis and arguments. IMO, it was largely a re-hash of Murphy and it inherits many of the same mistakes, the biggest being the assumption that the caller must also be the killer. This might have been “generally accepted” during the last century but the result is that modern theories are glossed over or ignored. Also, other theories/ideas when they are briefly mentioned, are dismissed as “half-baked”, “idiotic”, “nonsensical” and “insane”, to provide a small sample.
So there we go. The other titles in the Cold Case Jury are being re-released in the following weeks, too.
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